As a mathematician who earned a postgraduate
certificate in statistics at the University of Cambridge, Chris
is developing his third career shift as well as a lifelong fascination.
His careers : researching societal responses to the biggest new
product introductions of corporations which up to the end of the
1980s led chris to project work in over 25 countries; authoring
3 books on corporate brand architectures and consulting on this
up to the beginning of this decade including periods at the management
consultancy of a Big 5 accounting firm and the world's largest
communications agency; helping to develop the missing maths required
to resolve the corporate governance crises of unseen wealth :
intangibles, transparency, sustainability.

His fascination has been the revolution of networks.
Chris' first job in the early 1970s was with the UK's national
development program in computer assisted learning networks. It
was clear that networks were a revolution in the making.

As he discussed this with his father Norman
Macrae who deputy edited The Economist from the 1950s to 1980s,
they became ever more certain that networks would be the biggest
change ever to hit one generation of humanity.

And in the Orwellian year of 1984, their book
timelining the crisis waves up to 2024 of succeeding or failing
to sustain a world where 2 million global village economies thrive
was published in 5 languages. This was both the final work in
a trilogy on Entrepreneurial Revolutions written by Norman and
the book that started the death of distance future history genre
popularised currently by Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat.

As a collaboration entrepreneur his most urgent
project is to find world's most productive & demanding youtube
videos and adopt those you want to socially network;

He plays this at http://economistclub.tv
His father Norman McRae worked at The Economist for 40 years.
In his last decade he penned the Entrepreneurial Revolution trilogy
connecting interviews with over 1000 hi-trust entrepreneurs his
life had questioned The final part of this trilogy was a 1984
future history Chris co-authored on whether the Death of Distance
generation would be sustainable or not?

According to their original timelines -as well
as 25 years of subsequent debates : 2007-2015 will be the period
of tipping points which will systemise which end humanity means
to sustain?

Either there will be no more generations after
2100 or there will be a golden era when every child is born free
to produce and demand to their hearts content; Chris says -

-if you ever accept one idea from systems
theory, I pray it be that you know that globalisation is a system
that can only spin one of two opposite ends; As we get pervasively
interconnected, we can compound no in-between futures ; We either
map win-win-wins for everyone which incidentally will not cost
transparent rich people anything or we exponentially compound
the loss of every living resource. As I have a 10 year old daughter
to suatiain and invest in: the second scenario is utterly unacceptable
to me and anyone I network

QUOTE
In much of the corporate world, people think nothing of spending
a billion dollars a year on ads to global brand .How do we do
global branding at no cost when the info and network is life critical
and needs degrees of separation reduced to as near as zero as
vital truth must flow

There are four basic and primary things that
the mass of people
in a society wish for: to live in a safe environment, to be able
to work and provide for themselves, to have access to good public
health and to have sound
educational opportunities for their children. Currently we as
a society may be
struggling in each of those four areas, but we must remain confident
that with the personal commitment of each and every one of us
we can and will overcome the obstacles towards development Quote
Mandela

Norman Macrae joined The Economist in 1949,
and retired as the deputy editor of what he called "the world's
favourite viewspaper" in 1988. During that time, he wrote
extensively on the future of society and the impact of technology.

What's the greatest purpose any specific global
market sector could sustain for humanity? And once we have communally
agreed that, how do we plant an economically viable organisation
to compound that most humanly sustaining purpose

Does your city or place have a revolutionary
economist standing up openly for economics by and for the people.
Imagine what connectivity differences social networks out of a
place can have if world citizens have voted their trust into such
a connecting person versus if your place does not have an agent
of economics for and by the people

Where are tomorrows Florence Nightigales &
Mother Theresas? Who loves the world's poorest children most practically?
....How do we transform infrastructures where man has raped nature?
How can we transform the 21st C from the hangover of women owning
only 5% of world assets? What is the world's bank revolution in
Empowerment Economics all about? How does this match with service
and networking economies whose entrepreneurs value systems which
empower emotional and social intelligence?

Our mapmakers believe that these 2 people's
connections were so huge and systemic that they do not fit our
standard profile entries. If Gandhi or Mandela matches an interest
of yours, why not contact us at info@worldcitizen.tv
You can see one of the grids we are linking round to explore Mandela
networks at http://changeafrica.blogspot.com

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There is a difficulty that since the internet and its single generation
challenge to integrate local to global was always going to be
an unprecedented media revolution, this coordinate of system transformation
is not being transformed transparently

On April 25, 2007, America's knowledge of the
world changed. For the first time, 35 million youthful viewers
(of America Idol Gives Back) saw stories of what life is truly
like for many African children. Of course a new awareness is only
a start. But is is a collaboration flow to build on and network
with - are you interested in helping with any of the 6 main challenges
we have recalled ? If you are, or if there are other priorities
you are networking collaboration around, do connect with us at
info@worldcitizen.tv
One of the main sources of the stories was Kibera, a slum in Kenya
with 1 million people including 50000 orphan children. If you
want to understand more about helping those brave young Africans
our focus on these connections is at http://kibera.tv
If you are interested in understanding what roles youth and media
heroes can uniquely contribute, you may want to visit our 20 years
of work in helping communities certify sustainable world
class brands or our 5 year long maps of how participant and
reality tv connect around http://universityofstars.tv

... WorldCitizen.tv affiliate AfricanIdol.tv
asked Solar Architect Rick Nelson, designer of the greenest 100
person ampitheatre which is premiering alongside the Queen Elizabeth
Hall on London's South Bank : Can solar architects help change
slums like Kibera using a mixture of the Green in the City designs
being used in London and his changemakers solar garden entry for
Africa?

He said: There is a great potential that SolaRoof
can change the lives of those people, including orphans as shown
in the American Idol UTube item, who are struggling with such
desparate poverty and living in slum condtitions. If there could
be found some champions for solaroof that would support the pioneering
of this application then I would give it the highest personal
priority.

When we consider the difficult challenges presented
by the physical circumstances of worldwide slums and the rate
at which these slum conditions are expanding even more quickly
than the growing trend of urbanization, then it is very strategic
to have solutions that can be replicated. I am certain that the
solaroof solutions can inject a new pattern for built environment
design for the poor. The big problem is that there is little to
no "design" for the poor - our concepts for construction
of developed for the rich and the poor get only the leavings from
activities of those who live on the other side of the poverty
gap - a gap between rich and poor that is growing wider all the
time.

I believe that SolaRoof can bring solutions
that work with the communities - meeting them where they are are
and able to immeditately make a difference in qualtiy of life.
How plants - and the "free" resources and benefits that
they bring - can be integrated with dwellings and habitat is largely
a "know-how" that can be pioneered and developed through
collaboration. We have talked about building, through such collaboration,
a "Knowledge Oasis" within the slum area that is a demonstration
of the "Plant a SolaRoof" theme. Across the other side
of the poverty gap we have a very similar purpose for the London
South Bank, which we are calling "Green in the City".
The twinning of these projects would produce a dynamic spark of
insight and understanding about the new challenges of sustainable
living. The Knowledge Oasis also a "green oasis" in
the urban grey zone.

Among smart nations, until tonight America's
tv must rank as contender for most generation dumbing down (on
topics such as cross-cultural love, redusing money spent on arms
and big business transparency) in the world. The purpose of this
thread is to encourage links between those who want to see everything
changes from tonight on. Mass media's tipping point.

If you see advance news of a smart tv program
that might contact with one of the issue threads at onet or with
cooperation with world citizen networks and their maps,
please log it up.

Where do wars come from? In millions of hours
of interviews of people in communities, not individual beings
but some types of .gov is consensus. If we then ask what have
global .com had to do with warmaking or peacemaking in last 20
years, the inconvenient truth is because most do not integrate
compound sustainability into their governance models .Our largest
corporations have not helped with peacemaking & in some sectors
through environmental or other social pollution they have aggravated
loss of peace. This leads to conclusion that a 3rd typology -
call it world citizen nets -is needed as antidote to other two.

One question we've researched is what do citizens
believe their region can uniquely contribute to peace. Mapped
this way:

west usa extraordinary philanthropic & new
media resources should its lead citizens pitch these in;

East USA has catalogued social entrepreneur
maps & evolved grassroots summits like ClintonGI;

Germany is epicentre for transparency;

UK can bring world's largest non-commercial
broadcaster (public world service)

if only wc.tv, affilates et al can make peace
olympics as exciting to interact with as spectator sports- peace
needs to wave through media and .edu if only we focus on flows
of "knowledge that liberate us". M.Gandhi

For Collaboration City London, 2012 is a magic
date. Before the Olympics we invite all world citizens to determine
whether sustainability's future has been discovered. If not, we
will petition for the closure of the BBC or the change of the
world's largest public broadcaster's programming from trivial
pursuits like sports to actionable debates until human sustainability
networks are mapped and accessible to all. Up to 2012, please
register network events that you see as most relevant for http://passports.jp